The company on Wednesday said it would slow the pace of hiring for the rest of the year, the latest company to make such a move as decades-high inflation and the fallout from the Ukraine crisis pressure businesses.
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The announcement aligns the parent of search giant Google with other major tech companies including Uber Technologies Inc and Twitter Inc and comes a day after Microsoft Corp said it would eliminate some positions.
"Like all companies, we're not immune to economic headwinds," Alphabet said in a regulatory filing.
Hiring efforts will be focused towards engineering and technical roles, it said.
